Music : Body&Soul Main Stage 2011 : Lamb
Call it what you will—a challenge, an overture, a question with only one possible answer. During one particularly reflective phone call late last year, Andy Barlow posed a simple yet profound question to his longtime friend and musical partner, Lou Rhodes. The two had reformed Lamb, the band they started 15 years ago, to play a handful of festival dates in the summer of 2009, including The Big Chill, Glastonbury and Portugal’s Festival Marés Vivas. To say the reunion was a success would be a gross understatement. By January of 2010, Lamb had played 33 shows to hundreds of thousands of fans in 29 different countries. Lou vividly recalls the conversation.
He said, ‘Give me one reason why we shouldn’t do another album,’ and I just couldn’t come up with one. I was rendered speechless. After such a big break and the fact that we’d both gone off and done solo records, maybe it was the right time.”
“In my mind,” Andy continues, “I either needed to put the idea of Lamb down, or we needed to do it, and do it to the best of our ability.”
He said, ‘Give me one reason why we shouldn’t do another album,’ and I just couldn’t come up with one. I was rendered speechless. After such a big break and the fact that we’d both gone off and done solo records, maybe it was the right time.”
“In my mind,” Andy continues, “I either needed to put the idea of Lamb down, or we needed to do it, and do it to the best of our ability.”
